"In bidding, low prices can win the bid, causing everyone to be no better than quality, only lower than price."In the recent inspection of the law enforcement of the product quality law of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, some business owners complained that at present, the phenomenon of "winning the bid at a low price" in bidding in some places has become a prominent obstacle for enterprises to improve product quality, which needs to be managed and standardized.

In general, in accordance with the laws of the market, the bid price or the winning bid in the tender shall not be lower than the cost price. However, in reality, some bidding units ignore the quality requirements in the bidding process and only price theory, resulting in the winning bid price being lower or even far lower than the cost price.In order to obtain profits, these enterprises that win the bid at a price lower than the cost can only reduce costs in the procurement of raw materials, production and manufacturing, and make up for losses at the expense of product quality, thus appearing the phenomenon of "bad money drives out good money.In the law enforcement inspection, a cable company that once won the "government quality award" said bluntly:Production enterprises have no profit margin and are forced to cut corners and break through the bottom line. In fact, it is not uncommon to see cases of poor product quality and even safety accidents due to low-price winning.

The emergence of the phenomenon of "winning the bid at a low price" has something to do with the lax enforcement of laws and regulations and the imperfect regulatory mechanism, but at the root, it is caused by the lack of a competitive environment that encourages the survival of the fittest.

       When some companies spend a lot of profits every year to engage in research and development, innovation, and improve product quality, individual companies can compete on the same stage by cutting corners and counterfeiting, and even compete successfully.In the long run, no enterprise is willing to spend energy on research and development and innovation. This not only seriously disrupted the market order, but also a blow to the entire manufacturing industry. The solution is naturally to further improve the market environment, let enterprises speak with product quality, let the hard products shout loudly and stand firmly, so as to lay the foundation of product quality for the big manufacturing countries.

What is comforting is that in today's Chinese market, the space for profit by cutting corners or even counterfeiting is becoming increasingly narrow. On the one hand, at present, with the supervision of the whole process from pre bid, winning bid to post bid, the bidding activities are gradually standardized, and the possibility of seeking gray interests by winning the bid at a low price is greatly reduced.

On the contrary, some enterprises that win the bid at low prices often have very low profits, resulting in delays in delivery and inability to guarantee quality, which makes the tenderer pay a higher price. In the field of engineering, some people jokingly call this phenomenon "starving to death, exhausting themselves, and killing owners".

On the other hand, with the overall transformation of China's manufacturing industry, companies that are unwilling to invest in product quality will find it more difficult to survive. We should comply with and grasp this trend, which is conducive to improving product quality, make the current laws and regulations more operable, maintain the market rules of survival of the fittest, make law-abiding enterprises green light all the way, illegal enterprises everywhere, and let enterprises take the initiative to be responsible for products, consumers and society.

　　Quality is the foundation of an enterprise.China's product quality law also stipulates that enterprises should bear the main responsibility for product quality. In the final analysis, improving product quality depends on the enterprise itself. Only when every product has quality and every enterprise takes quality as the goal, can economic development have more quality. At present, the Chinese market is realizing consumption upgrading, the industrial structure is quietly changing, and high-end manufacturing, modern service industry and other fields will become hot spots of industrial investment. Competition in these areas will be more intense, and the requirements for quality and brand will be higher,Only by adhering to the quality-oriented and raising the quality problem to the level of values and modern enterprise concepts, can we catch up and establish our own advantages in international competition.